[EtherShock]

In an attempt to make my days more in exciting, I have switched over to the Dvorak key format. You should see how long it took for me to type this. Switching keys around on a laptop isn't as much an option really.

[redsniper]

is that where it has all the keys in alphabetical order?

[Anaz]

You've got waaay too much free time on your hands

[FireCrack]

Originally posted by redsniper
is that where it has all the keys in alphabetical order?

The more common letters in the english language are closer to your fingers rest positions.

[redsniper]

oh, so it's better.

[Taristin]

...but how do you switch to that? And how do you know which keyes are which, without changing them all.....?

[redsniper]

trial and error I suppose...

[Hippo]

[q]how do you know which keyes are which
[/q]

with a butter knife, and a picture of what you're aiming for

[Bobboau]

it's letters ae arainged to allow you to type faster, as opposed to the qwerty keyboard wich was designed specificly to slow typeing down so the mechanisms of the typerwiters of the late nineteenth centurey wouldn't get fouled up.

[EtherShock]

Originally posted by Anaz
You've got waaay too much free time on your hands

Yep, I do. ^_^

Originally posted by Raa
...but how do you switch to that? And how do you know which keyes are which, without changing them all.....?

Like this...

or this.

It'd be easier if I had a printer though.

[Clave]

There isn't any 'any' key?!?

[Kosh]

as opposed to the qwerty keyboard wich was designed specificly to slow typeing down so the mechanisms of the typerwiters of the late nineteenth centurey wouldn't get fouled up.

And it failed miserably because people would still end up typing too fast for those machines to handle.

[kasperl]

I typed a few times on a German keyboard, with just the Y and Z keys switched from QWERTY (and all the special characters changed). Drove me mad very quickly.

[Hippo]

I've been typing Dvorak since last night

[EtherShock]

Well, it's less than 24 hours, and I've improved greatly. I'm referring to the diagram less. ^_^

[Hippo]

i know where each letter should be, but have to pause and make sure i get it right...


*phew*

[Stealth]

yeah that's insane  i tried it once, and i'm sure i could've learned it, but every time i have to use another computer i had to switch back to the qwerty layout, so i just stopped... seems pretty cool though, it's definately something i'm going to learn one day

[Hippo]

i am tempted to try and change the school computers to it

[Clave]

Just randomly swap a few caps over, you know, to get them used to it....

[Admiral Nelson]

In case anyone is really interested in this subject, both the story that QWERTY was designed to slow typists down to minimize jamming, and the idea that the Dvorak keyboard is demonstably superior to QWERTY are untrue:
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